English for Engineering

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Design and Drawing

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Teknik Isack Farady, ST., M.T.

Program Studi
Teknik Elektro
Reading
Reading Exercise
Grammar : Passive Voice
• Use of Passive
• Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action. It is not important or
not known, however, who or what is performing the action.
• Example: My bike was stolen.
• In the example above, the focus is on the fact that my bike was stolen. I do
not know, however, who did it.
• Sometimes a statement in passive is more polite than active voice, as the
following example shows:
• Example: A mistake was made.
• In this case, I focus on the fact that a mistake was made, but I do not blame
anyone (e.g. You have made a mistake.).
Form of Passive Voice
• Subject + finite form of to be + Past Participle (3rd column of irregular
verbs)
• Example: A letter was written.
• When rewriting active sentences in passive voice, note the following:
• the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive
sentence
• the finite form of the verb is changed (to be + past participle)
• the subject of the active sentence becomes the object of the passive
sentence (or is dropped)
Listening
• For listening section, please open the URL :
• https://listenaminute.com/g/genetic_engineering.html
• (choose to enable the flash in the web browser)
• Then, you will see the prompt like this
• Play the audio and try to answer the following questions.
Scientific Paper: Paraphrase
• Definition
• Paraphrasing means formulating someone else’s ideas in your own words.
To paraphrase a source, you have to rewrite a passage without changing
the meaning of the original text.
• Paraphrasing is an alternative to quoting, where you copy someone’s exact
words and put them in quotation marks. In academic writing, it’s usually
better to paraphrase instead of quoting, because it shows that you have
understood the source and makes your work more original.
• Every time you paraphrase, it’s important to cite the source. You also have
to be careful not to use wording that is too similar to the original.
Otherwise, you could be at risk of committing plagiarism.
How to paraphrase in five steps
1.Read the passage several times to fully understand the meaning
2.Note down key concepts
3.Write your version of the text without looking at the original
4.Compare your paraphrased text with the original passage and make minor
adjustments to phrases that remain too similar
5.Cite the source where you found the idea
Paraphrasing example
• Original passage
• “The number of foreign and domestic tourists in the Netherlands rose
above 42 million in 2017, an increase of 9% and the sharpest growth rate
since 2006, the national statistics office CBS reported on
Wednesday” (DutchNews.nl, 2018).
• Paraphrased version
• According to the national statistics office, the Netherlands experienced
dramatic growth in tourist numbers in 2017. More than 42 million tourists
travelled to or within the Netherlands that year, representing a 9% increase
– the steepest in 12 years (DutchNews.nl, 2018).
Daftar Pustaka
• Mark Ibbotson (2016). Professional English for Engineering Cambridge
• H. Glendinning, Eric and Glendinning, Norman. (2016). English for
Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. Oxford University Press.
• https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive
• https://elt.oup.com/student/oefc/engineering1/listening/oefc_engineering
_lst02?cc=id&selLanguage=id
• https://www.scribbr.com/citing-sources/how-to-paraphrase/
• https://listenaminute.com/g/genetic_engineering.html
Terima Kasih
Isack Farady, ST, MT